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American Poet — Emily D.

Noted American poet, Emily Dickinson lived from 1830 – 1886. For the most part she was not published during her lifetime, and it was after her death that her poetry became widely known. Here is one of my favorite poems of hers:

Much Madness is divinest Sense

Much Madness is divinest Sense —

To a discerning Eye —

Much Sense — the starkest Madness —

’Tis the Majority

In this, as All, prevail —

Assent — and you are sane —

Demur — you’re straightway dangerous —

And handled with a Chain —

I remember some years back a friend of mine, Bonnie Lake, who I worked with, quoted the firstfour lines of this next Emily Dickinson poem: